Over the two years before I started university, my body fluctuated and metamorphosed constantly.
Even venerable old Hewlett-Packard has metamorphosed countless times, producing, amongst other things, oscillators, medical equipment, calculators and laser-jet printers.
In a single speech, Geoffrey Howe, Margaret Thatcher's foreign secretary, metamorphosed from Denis Healey's "dead sheep" to the parliamentary executioner of one of Britain's most powerful prime ministers.
The Delors Commission between 1985 and 1994 marked the zenith of this sort of integrationist zeal.After many a flap (see article), EMU eventually metamorphosed into a bird of much grander plumage.
The ideology of pan-Arabism trumpeted by the coup leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, gave Egyptians a place of pride in the world, even if his boldness brought ruinous wars in Yemen and against Israel.Six decades and four presidents on, the revolutionary regime has metamorphosed into one that encourages private business and allows for some pluralism.
"Seven and Six" was how this newspaper greeted the news (see article).Fifty years later the European Economic Community has changed out of all recognition, having metamorphosed into the European Union and grown far beyond the original six members.
Mr Podhoretz parted ideological company with them as he gradually metamorphosed from a left-winger into a cold-war warrior and Reaganite fellow-traveller, and he cannot now forgive them for failing to follow where he led.Instead he leaves a bad taste in his readers' mouths as he comes up with the most hurtful thing he can say about each of his former friends or allies.
Or, at least, to leave some parts of it: for upstairs, above the funereal foyer, much of what used to be BZW is still going strong.Shorn of its equities business, BZW has metamorphosed from a big investment bank into a medium-sized one.
This riotous culture worked to the firm's advantage in the days when it was a mere start-up, but became a hindrance once it had metamorphosed into a corporate giant locked in competition with the likes of Microsoft.More was at issue than dress codes.
A deeply conservative Catholic society has metamorphosed into an almost self-consciously tolerant one.
The offspring of the long-callers grew faster, metamorphosed from tadpoles into frogs earlier, and weighed more when they made that transition, than those of the short-callers.Previous research shows that, as a consequence of this heady growth, more of them would be expected to survive into adulthood.
